The Words ‘Genie’ And ‘Bottle’ Come To Mind
Further to this rather telling incident, a footnote of sorts, via the Telegraph:
The Telegraph has discovered that a pupil at a secondary school in the South West is insisting on being addressed as a dinosaur. At another secondary school in England, a pupil insists on identifying as a horse. Another wears a cape and wants to be acknowledged as a moon.
Not the Moon, obviously. Just a moon, a generic moon. With a cape.
The student in question is in Year 11, but began using the pronoun “catself” in Year 9 “when the whole thing with neo pronouns started,” the pupil said. She described how lessons could be completely derailed if a teacher attempted to get the child to reply to a question in English rather than meowing.
Readers of a certain age may recall pupils being sent home for wearing trainers or an inappropriate skirt. I remember overhearing a discussion regarding the selective enforcement of dress codes, and the precise shortness of skirt that would escape the disapproval of certain teachers, while resulting in the desired impression of rebellion and sluttiness. It turns out that similar issues remain, albeit with a twist:
At a distance, it is, of course, difficult to tease apart mischief and mentalism. And even up close, it’s not clear to me how a teacher, dutifully observing the Sensitivities Of The Current Year, could dismiss as mere prankery some farcical claim. As opposed to some other farcical claim.
With many secondary schools now teaching children that they “may be born in the wrong body,” with “safeguarding” policies that often exclude parents but include dozens of imaginary identity options, and which are shaped by unhinged activist groups – activist groups suggesting that teachers should “engage in conversation about… the benefits of the furry community” – then farce, and mischief, will ensue. And be difficult to untangle.
But is it a feature or a bug?
The Welsh cat is given as a “they” and therefore of indeterminate sex. Maybe someone shoved its head and front claws into a gumboot and whipped off the appendages with a quick transitionary snip,
Yeah, good luck with that.
I did think it was probably students taking the piss because, why not? They’re teenagers, it’s what they do.
However, someone was making the case on a Twitter thread that the reason suicide remains so high among those who’ve ‘transitioned’ sex may be because that mindset comes with a cornucopia of other mental illness, none of which are being treated because they’re being affirmed in their delusions. That’s going to be the case with at least some of these students and the schools should bare the brunt of any fallout. They willing got themselves into this mess after all.
Maybe there’s a kind of comfort to be had in the thought that some children are, it seems, taking the piss. And it does seem inevitable. I mean, once you’re cornered into arguing why someone being a they or a xe, depending on the alignment of the stars on any given day, is something to affirm, but someone being a horse, or a dinosaur, or a planetary body is a step too far…
Though of course the mischief isn’t without cost and also disrupts the class and creates a no less farcical environment. It strikes me as a test of what will break first.
Well, indeed. Those common comorbidities, some of which may be causes of the dysmorphia, and which, as you say, are also being indirectly affirmed. And thereby perpetuated, and quite possibly propagated.
A couple of years ago, I discovered that the local university is instructing all staff to affirm and indulge, among many other supposed identities, “bigender” status, or claims of such, as if it were something quirky and adorable, and not a serious mental health problem.
As noted following the second incident here, regarding the Metropolitan Police celebrating its first “bigender” officer:
And while I’m generally willing to defer to the police, I’m less keen to defer to someone who isn’t entirely sure who or what they are.
Perhaps school teachers and administrators should wear straitjackets (or Mao jackets) to properly express their “true selves”.
How about the Sweet Meteor of Death?
A question – even if the kids are acting a fool about “identity”, the schools do nothing, so why is the school being contacted in this instance?
OK, can’t talk to her because underage or reasons, but not the parents because they might be told to bugger off, so contact the the school because she is obviously a thought criminal and unlike the fools will get a swift and severe punishment?
The pendulum always swings both ways, I dare say there will be some blood on the backswing.
We live in a world where even most conservatives…”conservatives” wet their pants at the suggestion that a misbehaving five year old boy might need a spanking. This is what you get, conservatives. Nothing is going to change any time soon. Don’t deceive yourselves.
It’s just getting hard to tell what’s a piss-take and what’s not.
Identify as a cat? For lunch, give them a saucer of milk and some catnip, or take away their chair and desk in the classroom. There are so many ways to deal with these kids, who are obviously trying it on.
teachers will apply “common sense”–sorry, what? I think common sense has been banned to Siberia.
Shooting at Oakland CA Juneteenth celebrations last night leave 1 dead and 5 injured. This is how people reacted when the EMTs arrived.
Twerking and clowning around and climbing on ambulances? That is the behavior of savages, not of civilized human beings. Similar behavior at other Juneteenth events.
The savages are, well, savages. The “progressives” who excuse this are worse.
Bigender
I know we’ve been here before but please can we be just a teeny-weeny bit grammatical and have a hyphen in the appropriate place.
After all, what’s special about having a big arse.
Not to be confused with bigendian.
Francis Willis could likely have managed.
…not with a bang, but with a meow.
Fitting, that is.
Just a moon, a generic moon. With a cape.
Not all moons wear capes!
this is fundamentally “words describe reality” vs “words create reality” as well as “slippery slopes” and “taking the piss” all rolled into one
Interesting that students can choose which gender and species they belong to, but not which race. That is because race, not character, determines value.
If a girl can’t be a cat (or a dinosaur) then she can’t be a boy either.
Let’s see them get out of that one.
In the meanwhile the provision of nhs care, entitlement to state benefits, ability to fly overseas etc etc is restricted to humans. So all you cats, dinosaurs and satellites can either confirm your humanity or forfeit your rights to them.
Don’t even think about appealing to the ECHR or the Human rights commission – the clue is in their titles.
In other gender confused news, this parade didn’t go to plan. There is a “why they changed it I can’t say” joke in there somewhere.
Dude. Art is anal cheese. Once you lie back and accept this, well the pain persists but still…
I think a misbehaving twenty five year old is in need of a spanking, or a right good thumping, so I must be neither a conservative or a ‘conservative’.
Just send the little heathens to the playground sandbox for their bathroom break. Demerits for not covering it up.
You’re likely a conservative, thus not a “conservative”. Likely. But I find I’ve been wrong before. The classical liberal in me probably has something to do with that. Though at one time I was a bit Whig-curious.
Sounds kinky.
It’s the powdered wigs.
If we are to accept the teacher’s proposition, that the student can identify as anything they’d like, then surely if the student identifies as a cat then someone opposed to that point of view can’t be a homophobe. They can be a felesphobe but not a homophobe. But we’ve talked about poorly educated teachers ad nauseum.
Sheriff Bart: Stampeding cattle.
Hedley Lamarr: That’s not much of a crime.
Sheriff Bart: Through the Vatican?
Hedley Lamarr: Kinky. Sign here.
Or a tin of Little Friskies?
When the student “identifies” as a cat.
“Be gay. Do crimes.”
The need to be ever more transgressive.
Does the rainbow flag need another stripe to accomodate her?
“Be gay. Do crimes.”
“They won’t let this woman have her dialysis”
Dialysis? WTF?
“ZOMG, She is going into histrionics! Quick, get the dialysis machine out of the squad car!”
Speaking of crime, via Ace, nothing to see here, move along.
Nicely done.
On this week’s episode of Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me…
Pronouns would seem to be a wonderful opportunity to exercise the Dunning-Kruger effect. And this idea seems to have already occurred to the secondary students.
Heh. On NPR that would indeed be a “Shut up! Don’t tell me about that!” story. Or at least a “Don’t tell the public” story.
There is some dispute as to whether the late Norm MacDonald actually said the following
“What terrifies me is if a tranny were to shoot up a school full of children and kill a bunch of innocent kids. Imagine the pain when they’re misgendered by the media?”
However we can easily imagine his thoughts about “Wait wait, don’t tell me”.
“What terrifies me is if a tranny were to shoot up a school full of children and kill a bunch of innocent kids. Imagine the pain when they’re misgendered by the media?”
But that’s exactly what happened with the Nashville shooter, and no one cared that they misgendered and deadnamed her. Although if she had been a male pretending to be a female, maybe there would have been more outcry.
someone was making the case on a Twitter thread that the reason suicide remains so high among those who’ve ‘transitioned’ sex may be because that mindset comes with a cornucopia of other mental illness
Ah, you’re new here.
90%+ of men with sexual dysmorphia so severe they seek surgery and statistically 100% of women[1] were serially, secretly sexually abused as children or adolescents. That’s the textbook etiology for Complex PTSD, and everything about the behaviour of the gender warriors is consistent with Complex PTSD symptoms. The outward manifestation is just the zeitgeist’s current coping mechanism. A few years ago it was compulsive tattooing, body modification, cutting, drug and alcohol abuse.
There are so many ways to deal with these kids, who are obviously trying it on
[1] This number has been plummeting due to the social contagion effect and the deliberate targeting of teenage girls by predators, but that’s what it was until only a few years ago
Regarding which, this seems apposite.
Regarding which, this seems apposite.
That was terrifying. Especially the part about puberty blockers shutting down the hypothalamus. The ideologues have oversimplified its function I think, to “hormone factory” but apparently it does so much else. That last line really got to me.